About: Gene Derricotte   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/J-Bbb9dL2KoHEWl6-mWOcw==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Eugene "Gene" Derricotte (born June 14, 1926) is a former American football player who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948. He was one of the University's first African American athletes in the era when NCAA Division I college football was beginning to integrate. Derricotte established school records that still stand as a punt returner for the Michigan Wolverines football team. He also established several short-lived school interceptions records. Derricotte also served as a Tuskegee Airman and later had a successful career in dentistry while continuing to serve in the military.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Gene Derricotte
rdfs:comment
  • Eugene "Gene" Derricotte (born June 14, 1926) is a former American football player who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948. He was one of the University's first African American athletes in the era when NCAA Division I college football was beginning to integrate. Derricotte established school records that still stand as a punt returner for the Michigan Wolverines football team. He also established several short-lived school interceptions records. Derricotte also served as a Tuskegee Airman and later had a successful career in dentistry while continuing to serve in the military.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:americanfoo...iPageUsesTemplate
Number
  • 41(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1926-06-14(xsd:date)
Name
  • Derricotte, Gene
  • Gene Derricotte
Caption
  • Derricotte from 1948 team portrait
Height in
  • 10(xsd:integer)
imagewidth
  • 150(xsd:integer)
Birth Place
Weight lbs
  • 178(xsd:integer)
College
Place of Birth
  • Fostoria, Ohio
Height ft
  • 5(xsd:integer)
Position
Honors
  • Big Ten All-time Records
  • Career interceptions
  • Career punt return TDs
  • Michigan All-time Records
  • Single-season interceptions
  • Single-season punt return TDs
  • Single-season punt return average
Date of Birth
  • 1926-06-14(xsd:date)
Short Description
  • Player of American football
abstract
  • Eugene "Gene" Derricotte (born June 14, 1926) is a former American football player who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948. He was one of the University's first African American athletes in the era when NCAA Division I college football was beginning to integrate. Derricotte established school records that still stand as a punt returner for the Michigan Wolverines football team. He also established several short-lived school interceptions records. Derricotte also served as a Tuskegee Airman and later had a successful career in dentistry while continuing to serve in the military.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software